IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

Two stories dominated political news this week in the United States, which I was able to watch from the inside as I made a family visit, an...

Robert Parker wrote four westerns starring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, starting with Appaloosa , which was made into an excellent film ...

Peter Guillam is living a calm retirement at the family homestead in Brittany when he is summoned back to London, and reminded of his ‘lif...

Francois Ozon has a playful fascination with ambiguity, something film allows, if not encourages, in its story-telling. L'Amant Double...

It's 1937 and Dieter Merz is the ace of the Condor Legion, flying the new Messerschmidt 109 against Russian planes in the Spanish Civil...

Here's what Donald Trump accomplishes by telling reporters he's 'considering a pardon' for Muhammad Ali, who since his co...

Thanks to satellite imagery and an ISIS group leaving their phones on a little too long after a massacre in a Syrian village, MI6 has been...

My essay on the 50th anniversary of the RFK assassination is on the LRB Blog, you can link to it here . It's a little different from the...

My obituary of the astronaut Alan Bean is up at the Guardian online now; you can link to it here . It is scheduled for the paper paper tomo...

My essay about Philip Roth went out yesterday on the BBC Radio 4 obituaries programme Last Word. You can find it on the IPlayer here (it...

Although Tom Wolfe was in many ways the poster boy for 'The New Journalism', and appreciations of him focused on his revolutiona...

When I found the manuscript pages of Silent Feet I was pleased at how well I remembered it, and how well it held up. I wrote it 40 years a...